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Equal Opportunity Apocalypse or: Our Psycho-Sexual Brouhaha

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…e current state of the religion-and-culture wars? Perhaps. First and foremost, one is struck by the nearly apocalyptic rhetoric on all sides. The liberal Obama’s gesture to conservatism is feared as announcing the death of the political left. The parallel gesture to the gay and lesbian community is thought to be the end of the world among some conservative hardliners. It is that strange note of apocalypse that struck me first, and gives me cause t…

Black Media Fails Its LGBTQ Community

By Rev. Irene Monroe

…ranssexual woman who was found dead inside her first floor apartment in Allston, just outside of Boston, with multiple stab wounds to her chest. But the other crime against Rita Hester was the media coverage. While black media did not cover the case, the Boston Herald did, referring to Ms. Hester as “he,” or “a transvestite,” or “William,” or “an enigma,” and stating that even her neighbors didn’t know who she was until the time of her death. This…

RDPulpit: You Lost the Debate

By Mary E. Hunt

…vide for everyone, not revel in the ignorance of Joe Six-Pack about some mysterious system that is beyond us all. No one risks a go at moral tough love, like suggesting that maybe it is time for a Jubilee—to erase old debts and start fresh by sharing the earth’s goods equitably among the earth’s people. What if the United States would use only its share of the earth’s energy resources and not several times over as we do now? Such suggestions are l…

The Bible Says… and Other Myths About Scripture

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ll with the Book of Common Prayer still in liturgical use; and fundamentalist, mostly independent Baptist churches retain the KJV as the only truly inspired word of God. In its extreme form, KJVO Baptists argue that the divine spirit breathed through Wycliffe and Tyndale (but not Douai) and culminated in the foreordained event of the 1611 “Authorized” English Bible. A strange conclusion to draw about an anti-Calvinist Bible. For those who were not…

“Evil,” a Cautionary Tale For Iran

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…and the sacred power of naming can create realities to match. One of the most striking things about the security team President-elect Obama trotted out last week was the absence of the ideological community that gravitates toward the well-worn rhetoric of good and evil. These are practical people, by challenges. But they are also adults, and they bring a refreshing maturity and gravity that has been lacking among too many of the political performe…

As Larry Summers Gently Sleeps: Will Obama Ever Turn Against Plutocracy?

By Peter Laarman

…ough it means extreme agony for working families in places like Toledo and St. Louis. But here is the pièce de résistance: those photos of Larry Summers snoring through yesterday’s meeting between the POTUS and the credit card chiefs!! Wow, talk about photo ops gone bad! Larry can’t keep his eyes open for 30 frickin minutes while his President speaks for the cameras about the need for the banks to play fair and not pick the pockets of cardholders…

Public Shrines to Treason: Charlottesville and the Cult of Confederate Memorialization

By Spencer Dew

…e supremacism and white nationalism, the anti-black fantasies and revisionist histories of slavery at the heart of Confederate civil religion. For Duke, whose romance of the Southern slavers’ rebellion has always been linked with an appreciation for Hitler and a penchant for posing in SS uniform, there is no space between these two positions, between the Stars and Bars and the Hakenkreuz. But for many other Americans, particularly but not only in…

Terminal 5 is a Product of the New Post-9/11 Realities

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…creates a separate target, and therefore a more attractive target for self-styled terrorists to hit. No amount of concrete road barriers or heavily-armored security personnel can change that fact. And the symbolics of this simultaneous segregation and linkage are troubling. George W. Bush originally ran on the promise—yes, the promise—that under his leadership, the United States would get out of the world-policing and nation-building business, and…

Milwaukee Archdiocese, Under Dolan, Paid Sex Abusers to Leave Priesthood

By Sarah Posner

…rch about efforts by the accused Kansas City priest and the Archdiocese of St. Louis to subpoena confidential records from SNAP. There, she wrote: While the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has denied that there is a national strategy for the Church to fight sex abuse cases more aggressively, even the Church’s staunchest defenders see the pattern. As William Donohue, the pugilistic president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civ…

AIG: On Charisma and Routinization of Greed

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ts elegant simplicity and broad comparative reach. The prophet, Weber suggested, is best defined as the unique bearer of charisma. No sooner had Weber offered his “unified theory” of the prophet than he subdivided the essential concept again, noting that there were two very different kinds of charisma with which he had to deal. On the one hand, there is the charisma of personality; on the other, there is the charisma of office. The two forms rarel…